Commoning the City

Derya Özkan: Department of Cinema and Digital Media, Izmir University of Economics.Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç: Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (2019–2020), Koç University and Department of Anthropology, Istanbul University.

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• Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of contributorsIntroduction. Towards an Ethos for Commoning the City: An Introduction, Derya Özkan and Güldem Baykal BüyüksaraçPART 1. COMMONING URBAN NATUREChapter 1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons. Urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit, Rachael BakerChapter 2. The Politics of Food. Commoning Practices in Alternative Food Networks in Istanbul, Ayça İnce and Zeynep KadirbeyoğluChapter 3. Insurgent Ecologies: Rhetorics of Resistance and Aspiration in Istanbul’s Ancient Market Gardens (2014-2018), Charles ZernerChapter 4. "A Revolution under our feet": Food Sovereignty and the Commons in the case of Campi Aperti, Massimo De Angelis and Dagmar DiesnerPART 2. CLAIMS TO URBAN LAND: BEYOND PUBLIC - PRIVATE PROPERTYChapter 5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded, Nicholas BlomleyChapter 6. From graveyards to the ‘people’s gardens’: The making of public leisure space in Istanbul, Berin GolonuChapter 7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus, Ezgican ÖzdemirChapter 8. A migrant’s tale of two cities: Mobile Commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Vasiliki MakrygianniPART 3. RESPONSES TO PRECARITYChapter 9. Contradictions of housing commons: between middle class and anarchist models in Berlin, Kenton CardChapter 10. Precarious Commons. An Urban Garden for Uncertain Times, Elke KrasnyChapter 11. Cooperative Economies as Commons: Labor and Production in Solidarity, Bengi Akbulut